Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Will Flex be the engine of economic recovery?

I'm looking forward to next week's SeedCamp, a regular London-based forum where some of the UK's most promising web technology start-ups are invited to demonstrate their ideas to venture capitalists. I'll be with CityOdds, a innovative Flex-based financial services betting website. What's interesting is that CityOdds is not the only company with a Flex-based product in the top 20. Check them out for the next big idea. Will the Flash platform be the engine of global economic recovery I wonder?

About Me

After graduating from Cambridge University I worked in SCO's UNIX kernel team and then in DEC's VMS kernel team at their European R&D center in Italy, a team led by David Solomon, the author of the Windows Internals books.
In 2000, I joined the award-winning British start-up, Searchspace, a company whose AI software is used by financial services organizations around the world to detect and investigate money laundering, terrorist financing, tax evasion and organized crime.
After working the City at one of the leading investment banks I went on to build a Flex development team at the world's largest betting exchange, betfair.com. I am currently with Rule Financial Ltd., a London-based consulting company providing specialist business and technical consulting to the investment banks.
The views in this blog are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of Rule Financial Ltd.